bigtimegames

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by bigtimegames 1y ago
it is like old school with time sharing systems -- you gotta be efficient when your turn comes up in the lab on the punch card and mainframes... instead of the mindless and endless trial-n-error hacking we are used to these days?
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Is Thompson NFA still needed for regex?(medium.com)
1 points by bigtimegames 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigtimegames 5y ago
True stories? Anyone else have stories to share?
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Is Firebolt DWH the real deal?(doug-foo.medium.com)
2 points by bigtimegames 5y ago|2 comments
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by bigtimegames 5y ago
This company has like 0 press -- but $37m in funding, are they for real?
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by bigtimegames 5y ago
Sure why not -- I mean redshift is a cluster of Postgres databases as well. What you don't get is scale -- so its fine for a small data warehouse (in which case is it really a data warehouse...)
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by bigtimegames 5y ago
I was pondering this as well -- and wondering should I buy SNOW stock or is it a bubble ?
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by bigtimegames 5y ago
This is a good story for all to realize -- you CAN talk about your OWN pay to anyone you want. Every employer I know has tried to say "you can't do that" or "its in your contract" and I would rebuff and say the con
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by bigtimegames 5y ago
Standup is a grind .. I think of ways to get out of it, like an extended toilet break
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by bigtimegames 5y ago
Hmm i think the pace of changes has made software break more, but unit tests and integration tests are an improvement. But I agree writing unit tests takes a hella lotta time, not sure if a sr eng should be doing that 1/2 the time